NEW DELHI – Indian Army holds massive war games at border with rareintegrated battle groups.
Indian Army carried out a rare integrated military exercise combining itsvarious wings in eastern Ladakh bordering China, days after a face-offbetween the Indian and Chinese troops in the region.
The war games included tanks, infantry soldiers, paratroopers jumping fromhelicopters and mechanised infantry as a part of readiness exercise to testthe army’s capabilities against China, India Today has reported.
The army is looking at setting up integrated battle groups to make itsoperations more effective and synergised. It will include all arms of theArmy like infantry, armoured and artillery to transform them into cohesivestriking forces.
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Road space is limited in the region and there are logistical constraintsdue to the tough terrain. Small elements of armoured and mechanisedinfantry were used to test combined capabilities, said an army source.
